*organizes crusade, Christmas gifts to mark birthday
By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
On what they described as a homecoming of Adamawa State Illustrious son and a philanthropist of national repute, Dr. Emmanuel N Musa stormed Yola on Tuesday and was received by hundreds of youth, women, and officials of many organizations and cultural groups.
Musa is a humanitarian who founded the Emnamu Foundation with the sole aim of helping the less privileged and reaching out to the needy in terms of education, health and socioeconomic welfare of people, communities and societies in and outside Adamawa state.
His homecoming as revealed by the coordinator of the foundation, Comrade Kukuyada Godwin, “Musa has piled lot of activities and programmes planned to do in commemoration of his birthday.”
At the Yola International Airport on Tuesday, Musa was well received, and led in a convoy of thousands of people to Yola Correctional Center, where he secured the release of thirty-eight (38) inmates by paying their fines.
According to Kukuyada, Emmanuel, he has also paid transport fares of all the inmates released from the Yola prison.
His visit to Yola Teaching Hospital and State Specialist Hospital Jimeta-Yola, witnessed giving out of food items, toiletries and cash to patients, which was a moment of joy to many patients, who poured down prayers of blessings on him because many of them were not having means of paying their hospital bills.
Musa in his yearly programme, makes it a point of duty to visit the orphanage home in Yola, where he donated hundreds of toiletries to them.
Kukuyada confirmed to this medium that Emmanuel at the Yola Correctional Center also promised to assist to build a school for giving the prisoners good educational training.
Part of the activities to mark this year’s birthday of the young business mogul was a crusade he organized in his country home of Kala’a, Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, where thousands of people were in attendance.
The hope of many today is rising high over Musa’s visit as many recalled how he empowered youth with business capitals, tricycles, facilitated jobs to many others in federal and state government agencies, as well as giving out cars to some individuals in the communities.
“This year is also a pile of many wonderful surprises as Musa is set to achieve,” Kukuyada said.
He added, “Giving is the hubby of this young man, I believe it is one of the good reasons God is opening more doors for him. There is no household as far as I know in Kala’a and environs that Musa didn’t touch with his foundation.
” He has done so much to the extent that we have even lost count of all that is doing for humanity. No man can pay him back, only God. He is no doubt, our Santa Claus -the Father Christmas of our time ” Godwin said.
He informed that after the crusade, there will be several other activities lined up to celebrate his birthday till December 25th.
